A friend of mine who used cloth diapers would blow dry her little girl's bum after each changing she could (just low setting). Apparently her daughter loved it : ) It is really important that she is completely dry before applying anytime of ointment, otherwise you are just trapping in moisture instead of blocking it out.
My 4 boys had very little diaper rash but when they got it, it was bad (similar to what you've described). The best advice I ever got (from my pediatritian) was forget the store-bought creams and just use vaseline. Pat them dry and clean as much as possible (or put them in the tub to clean up) and really slather on the vaseline. Keep checking and reapplying vaseline everytime time you change your daughter (every couple hours at least). Everytime, it really worked well and the rash was significantly better in a day or two. Good luck!
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Sounds like it may be a yeast infection. I'd take your little one in just to be sure. If it is, the doctor will prescribe an antifungal cream for you to use and it will clear it right up. Good Luck.
Hi there it sounds like the exact same thing my little guy went through at the exact same age. He'd never had one before and then got a whooper that just wouldn't go away. I ended up taking him in to the doctor. They said it was a yeast infection. They gave him an ointment to put on his rash...I can't remember the name of it but within a week he had completely healed. i wished i hadn't waited so long to take him in. Good luck!
The best thing is to clean gently, dry throughly and lather on vaseline every diaper change. Powders just caked the urine or stool to the skin. If you have a cream with nystatin in it that may help too. If the vaseline doesn't help in a day I would call your pediatrician for an appt.
That sounds awful. I would definitely let the pediatrician see her. There is a risk of infection, and you don't want her to get staph or misdiagnose staph yourself it as diaper rash.
See what the doctor says - maybe no diaper for stretches of time. I know that Desitin actually caused my kids pain sometimes. There's something called A+D which seems to feel better to them, but I would absolutely get her to the doctor to ruse out skin infections.
Good luck!
Hi Gaby,
My son recently had a bad diaper rash and I found Deitin in combinaton with baby powder really helped. Try and keep the area as dry as possible and if its getting as worse as it sounds I would try taking to her to the doctor. I had a friend who had a baby who had diaper rash and the actual cream was the one making it worse. It turned out she was allergic to the creams she was using to treat her diaper rash. She said her daughter was in agony as well. Hope this helps!
We had the same thing with our son...she needs to see a doctor as soon as possible. Infants can develop diaper rshes that are associated with yeast. Our doctor gave us a fabulous medication called Nystatan (spelling?). I have heard that doctors usually try a few things before prescribing this - maybe because of the cost? If you do get it, have them give you refills for all the diaper bags!! Also, he prescribed the use of Vaseline or petroluem jelly - to use in conjunction with the product several times a day. The jelly provides a barrier between their gentle skin and the moisture. Have you thought about using a disposable diaper to get her over this? We found that we had to stay on top of it - it will reoccur. Use the jelly for EVERY diaper change and get her to a doctor. This is so painful for them. Good luck!!!
P.S. I was also told that the old fashioned Desitin is the best - more zinc. Do not use the creamy kind. A and D was also a good product.
Poor Baby! When my son had bleeding diaper rash I switched to a diaper rash cream called SebaMed. You can get it on the internet. It changes the Ph of thier skin to 5.5 and he was cleared up in 3 applications. After battling the rash for 2 weeks, I thought this cream to be a Godsend. I don't use anything else now. Also, my son is allergic to Lanolin which is an ingredient in most diaper rash cream/oint. which made things extra difficult. Good luck. It is so hard when your little one hurts down there.
Good morning,
When my children were babies we used cloth diapers. We used a diaper service for a while then I laundered my own. I would contact the diaper service and they would do disinfect/rinse the diapers twice or wash them twice with two rinses until the rash cleared up. The last rinse I would make sure I did not use any softener. Hanging the diapers on a clothes line also helps. The sun disinfects too.
Have you changed laundry soap, bath soap, baby shampoo, baby lotion, laundry softener, types or brands of disposable diapers in the last month? She might be allergic to something. It could also be a new food she has been introduced to in the last month. My children would sometimes get a rash when they were getting a new tooth. The doctors would say it was not possible but it happened.
Are you putting the desitin on very thick? The desitin is supposed to protect the skin from the acidity of the urine and allow the skin to heal from the inside out. Be sure not to try and wipe the desitin off each time you clean her. You should have desitin still on the skin after you clean her. Each time you clean her you would add more desitin. If the skin in bleeding you might want to put some Triple antibiotic ointment on 3 times a day. They sell it now in the drug store with pain relief added to the ointment. That helps with her pain a lot. Clean the skin by patting. We had a hand held shower message that was wonderful for cleaning bottoms. We could gently wash the skin in the shower or tub, pat it dry and put the diaper on.
Good luck!
Hi Gabriela,
I had the same problem with my son (now 21 months old). I tried everything! I changed his diet several times, tried every natural product and the best product for us has been Triple Paste diaper cream. We use it now every diaper change. It is the BEST diaper cream! We also rinse out the diaper wipes. ( just take a stack of wipes and run them under the faucet and squeeze them out before putting them back in the container ). We also avoid spaghetti sauce and too many strawberries in his diet. Too much acid in his diet seems to make for more acidic poop. I took my son to a pediatric allergist, but found he was not allergic to any of the major allergenic foods. As a precaution, I have him on lactose-free organic milk (available at Whole Foods). I think he may be slightly lactose-intolerant, although not allergic to dairy. I also give him baby probiotics ever day. It's just a powder that you mix into his milk, water or food every day. I get it at Whole Foods. It's called Dinosaurs Baby Bifidactyl. That seems to help. He was having pretty runny poops, lots of blow-outs and that does seem to help. The diarhea often causes the diaper rash. His bum is totally fine now.
I hope you find a solution that works for you. A raw, bleeding bummy is just horrible!!!
-Emily
Sounds like she has a yeast infection. They can get this on their bottoms, and it doesn't go away unless you get some creme (prescription) from the doctor. My son had it a couple of times, and it usually went away, or a least improved significantly after about 24 hours.
I didn't have time to read through all your responses but one thing to look for is yeast infections. THey look a lot like rashes. I'd take your little one in just to make sure. They can also give you medicated cream with some numbing agents to help relive the pain. Both of my kids were super sensitive got rashes all the time! But one time it was a yeast infection I admittingly tried to treat it like a rash for too long.
I would try using both a cream and powder. I really like the Aquaphor. I would put that pretty generously onto the rash area, and then I would put the powder in the diaper and on the areas that don't have a rash. My daughter used to get horrible rashes like this also - the dr. gave her a prescription to help, you may want to contact your dr. and see what he/she says. Good Luck!
It might not be daiper rash, at all. My daughter had one case of what I thought was diaper rash and after taking her to the doctor, discovered that it was a yeast infection on the skin.
I was having this problem with my 15 month old and started using paper diapers at night and using Weleda diaper cream which seemed to help. At times if the rash was really red it was a yeast infection and I would apply gynalotrimin, women's yeast infection medicine to the red spots and they would heal in a few days, might be worth a try. Keep giving her time without diapers on outside to really dry out
good luck
Hi Gabriela.
I am so sorry the two of you are going through this!
You got a lot of responses, but I just want to add something that was our case. My daughter had horrible diaper rashes, bleeding and everything. I took her to our ND and she said she might be allergic to milk, even though she got her rash from eating any kind of fruit. She said if she has low tolerance for both milk and fruit, cut one out and she will be able to handle the other. I chose to use alternatives to milk and have her keep eating fruit and she got better very quickly. Later we did more testing and found out she is lactose intolerant. All this to say you may want to treat your little one from the inside to prevent the rash from coming back, at the same time as treating the symptoms from the outside. Hope you find your answers.
Hi Gabriela - the same thing happened to my daughter and here is what the advice nurses told me:
- Do not use wipes once your child has a diaper rash, use soft paper towels or a wet wash cloth, the wipes leave a residue that burns
- Warms baths help heal
- they suggested the following concoction that worked miracles for my daughter:
1/2 tube desitin (or any zinc oxide cream)
1/2 tube a&d ointment
1 tablespoon antacid (maalox or something like it)
1 tablespoon bacitracin (over the counter ointment like neosporin)
Mix it all together and voila, a miracle cream.
I also just let my daughter run around with no diaper but I put panties on her to help with the mess if she did pee and I also put her to bed at night with no diaper for a couple nights. All the above combined and within 3 days her rash was gone. And when I see a rash beginning I use the cream and am generally able to stop it before it begins.
Good luck!
Resa
Get her to a Pediatrician! do NOT put powder!!!
Aveeno Baby Oatmeal bath will help - I mixed in a little Epzom Zaltz (broken key on lap top - thank you darling Boy!)
But I think it iz yeazt infection and will not go away without a Rx. My kiddo got them all the time - very painful - but he never bled - that iz alarming!
Go now!!
The tip about uzing Vazeline to go on top of the medicine worked great for Ian & I uzed it for every diaper change from then on. The cloth diaperz may be too irritating - you may want to go to Pamperz full time until thingz get better.
Cotton iz rough when wet and chafing occurz.